Analysts also note the ratio of the vessel orderbook(59 Mdwt at end 2018)
in the crude sector, to existing fleet size(380 Mdwt by end 2018), or around 15.5%.
In 2018,
expected fleet growth will be 4 Mdwt, or a little more than 1%,
with vessel scrapping at 17 million dwt, more than twice the yearly average over the previous decade.
During the first nine months of 2018,
a total of 22.7 million deadweight tonnes(Mdwt) of tankers were delivered into the fleet
while 19.2 Mdwt were removed for scrapping, resulting in net fleet growth of just 3.5 Mdwt(or 0.6 percent),